How To: Strengthen shoulders with a vertical pallof press
You may think that, like cooking, there exists a set number of static routines/recipes without much innovation or change. But new exercises are invented all the time.
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How To: Enhance core stability with barbell rainbow exercise
You may not having a honking old six-foot barbell just lying there in your living room, but if you manage to get to the gym and find one of these heavy, intimidating looking rods lying around, try lifting them up for a change.
How To: Lessen the strain from clapping push ups
If you're finding that performing your usual push up routine is not giving you results anymore (your muscles adjust to any new exercise you perform within a week, making the results less noticeable), try the clapping push up.
How To: Tone your body without weights with a tabata workout
No one expects you to have a gym full of dummbells and exercise machines at your fingertips, nor does anyone expect you to drop hundreds of dollars monthly to tone your fabulous body at the gym.
How To: Do a bouncing push up for MMA fighters
Don't even attempt this exercise if you're not trusting of gravity (and have amazing core balance). Combining one-armed push-ups with chest bounces from the stability ball, the exercise is dependent on your core strength and trust that the ball won't fly away as you come down.
How To: Tone your core with a stability ball ab plank
Unless your name is Jessica Alba, you probably weren't born with a pack of abs that resembles a cheese grater. But whether you're skinny as a rail or have recently let yourself go (to McDonald's a few too many times) and are concealing a nice pair of man boobs, you can perfect your midsection.
How To: Make a super cannon arm movie prop/effect
This is a video tutorial that is showing its audience how to make a super cannon arm. The first thing you need is a plastic jug, a switch, a wire, a wooden dowel, spray paint, a tap light, nick nacks, foam lining, and a pin light. The plastic jug will be the casing, cut out a hole for the lightsource and a hole for your arm cannon. Spray paint the jug. Make the handle with the wooden dowel. Then screw the handle into place with two screws into your plastic jug. Once you put the handle in then...
How To: Use the sends & returns in Ableton
Nick from Primeloops shows how to most effectively use the effect sends in Ableton Live. He explains how most people use the effect send, and why that may not be the best way to go. He covers the basics of dry audio and wet audio and how to manage them for optimum effect. If you watch this short video, you can learn the basics of sends and returns and find out how to apply effect settings to multiple tracks which is of great benefit if you want to save time and cpu power.
How To: Create animated titles using layers in Sony Vegas
Windows Movie Maker has some pretty cool text effects. One of them is a layered effect for titles. Here is basically the same thing in Sony Vegas.
How To: Use effects automation in Garageband
In this video, Nick teaches us how to use effects automation in Garageband. Any effects you use on your track will allow you to change the effects over time if you change how you want it. First, load up your track and loop it up by clicking on the loop button. Once finished, load up effects so you can automate them later. Hit the "i" button, then go to the details tab on the bottom. Now, change the effects you would like for automation. For the first one, go with the "au" filter, then for the...
How To: Protect shoulder blades by doing specialized push ups
Push ups not only give you sculpted, toned shoulders and pectoral muscles, but they also keep your shoulder bone, or scapula, in place and moving around your ribcage without popping up.
How To: Build a car racing scene from photographs
In this great, albeit long, tutorial Nick from Greyscale Gorilla shows you how to create a car racing scene from a series of photographs in After Effects. It's very kinetic and looks great.
How To: Strip insulated copper wire for electronics
This video tutorial explains how to strip insulated wire the right way. You'll learn how to adjust your wire strippers to make the process easier. Some people don't even use wire strippers, they use a knife or maybe even their teeth, but this causes nicks in the copper. To get the insulation off with ease and without gouges in the copper wire, use the proper sized wire strippers and adjust them right to fit the gauge of your wire. It's as simple as that. You don't need to go to vocational sch...
How To: Make the perfect hole for your destroyed denim
In this tutorial, we learn how to make the perfect hole for your destroyed denim. First, you will need to grab a pair of sharp scissors. Make small horizontal cuts around 1 cm apart. Once you have made as many cuts as you want, you will use tweezers to pull out the fray that is on the bottom of the cuts in the jeans. To create nicks and grindings, use a Dremmel tool on the jeans. This will help you sand down the area of the jeans you want the hole to be and create a distressed look. When fini...
How To: Do a kettlebell chin up exercise to strengthen your Muay Thai clinch
If you practice Muay Thai then you're probably more than familiar with a move called the Muay Thai clinch. In boxing and in Muay Thai, clinching involves holding your opponent's body or arms in a tight position that prevents him from punching or kicking you. This is an excellent offensive strategy that many fighters use during a match.
How To: Do a kettlebell exercise to strengthen your Muay Thai clinch
If you practice Muay Thai then you're probably more than familiar with a move called the Muay Thai clinch. In boxing and in Muay Thai, clinching involves holding your opponent's body or arms in a tight position that prevents him from punching or kicking you. This is an excellent offensive strategy that many fighters use during a match.
How To: Do better kettlebell arm swings three different ways
If you haven't invested in them already, kettlebells are worth their weight in gold if you're trying to build massive muscle fast to bulk up and become stronger. They're usually used in ballistic exercises that incoporate cardio, strength training, and flexibility training to achieve an all-in-on workout.
How To: Perform a free standing bent over row exercise to firm arms
Want to take the push up position to the next level? Push ups are excellent for toning your arms, but if you do push ups every day your body will become adjusted to the exercise within a week, meaning you'll soon hit a plateau in muscle gain and weight loss.
How To: Do a free standing row exercise with dumbbells to tone triceps
No pain, no gain, right? In this fitness video you'll learn how to do a standing rowing exercise with a little twist: adding dumbbells. By holding on to a substantial weight while doing a bent rowing exercise, you'll be adding a lot more resistance to your workout, forcing your triceps to work harder to contract.
How To: Clean or field dress a deer
In this video, you'll learn how to field dress a deer. Put on gloves. Use Ozark trail hunting knife for dressing the deer. Place deer on its back, head facing away from you. Starting from the anus, split the deer up the middle to the chest. Use left had to prevent cutting or nicking the internal organs. Stretch the cavity open. Loosen organs from cavity wall. Cut out the entrails and all organs. Make an anal incision. Use the butt tool to remove the butt/final portion of intestine. Saw the pe...
How To: Strength train with a unilateral farmer's walk
Unilateral exercises are easier than bilateral exercises, so it's safer to start with these types of weight lifting workouts if you're an exercise beginner.
How To: Use the CSTools Flicker plug-in for Cinema 4D
CSTools are free plug-ins that are available for your Cinema 4D application. In this tutorial, Nick will show you how to use the plug-in called Flicker. Flicker is a fun add-on, although you may not use it often. It can be used to add a "flicker" to things like campfires, candles, lights, etc. So, if you need to enhance some light effects in your program, check this out.
How To: Start a fire with the "fire piston" method
Nick Spadaro shows how to make a fire with a fire piston. This device creates fire by compression, just like a deisel engine. You can find these online. Lubricate the gasket with just about anything, including chapstick or animal fat. Then put it in and make sure you have a nice fit. Pick your tender, preferably birch tender fungus, a nice spongy material. Put it in the piston, and put the piston on your leg. Your going to want to strike the piston sharply, straight down, so as not to break t...
How To: Remove the inner wheel bearing race on a front wheel drive car
Richpin demonstrates how to remove the inner wheel bearing race on front wheel drive cars. If you have pressed the wheel bearing off the hub and you want to reuse the hub, you need to remove the inner wheel bearing race. Use an air chisel to remove the inner wheel bearing race. First, make sure to wear a pair of safety goggles. Then, place a blunt chisel bit into the recess and remove the race. This can also be accomplished by working a regular chisel back and forth. If the chisel nicks the h...
How To: Maintain a sharp edge on your knife
When you use your knife, you want it to be sharp. When you first buy your knife it has a factory edge, which is the sharpest it will ever be. To maintain a sharp edge on the knife you are going to need to invest in a sharpening steel. To sharpen the knife, take the sharpening steel in one hand and the knife in the other. Pull the knife toward you on the bottom and the top with gentle strokes. After you have gently pulled it across the steel a few times apply some pressure and speed up a littl...
How To: Draw an anime or chibi Santa Claus
Attention aspiring anime cartoonists! This holiday season make your own holiday cards by drawing your very own anime Santa Claus on the front, with this step by step lesson tutorial on how to make the perfect chibi 'ol Saint Nick and later in the video, how to color it in with the help of your computer's general coloring or paint program. Anime and what is called "manga" (comics and print cartoons in the Japanese language) will make your Christmas card stand out from the rest! Good luck!
How To: Create voluminous and loosely curly Hollywood starlet hair
When starlets like Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Aniston want to look glamorous and at their best on the red carpet, there are generally two hairstyles they turn to:
How To: Do the four best bicep and tricep exercises on the TRX Suspension Training
You aren't just born with broad Stallone shoulders and arms, gentlemen. Of course we know you wish you never had to work to get those tight, chiseled arms and shoulders, but even the best of the best - that's right, including Stallone - have to work what their mama gave them to keep in shape.
How To: Incorporate isometric training exercises into your workout
Isometric exercises are strength training exercises that don't let the joint angle and muscle length contract during the movement. This means that the exercise is done in a static position with the muscular intensity coming from the weights and your own body.
How To: Condition your body for horseback riding and racing
Like driving a car during rush hour traffic or sitting unmoving at your desk, your body is not designed to sit in one position for a long time, which means that if you ride a horse you may encounter back problems.
How To: Do the Coin in a Bottle trick
Nick Sonani teaches a neat bottle trick where you flip a coin on a business card with one finger. - Take a 5 cent (nickel), dime or another small coin.
News: Snap's Vice President of Content Is Ghost, as App Continues to Shed Users
In a move sure to stir up even more speculation about the future of Snap Inc., the company's vice president of content, Nick Bell, is leaving the company after five years.
News: Bellator MMA Brian Rogers on Iconici Tv MMA
Video: . Iconici Tv MMA Host Naiya Marcelo caught up with with Bellator middleweight fighter Brian Rogers "The Professional Predator" at Factory X Muay Thai/MMA/BJJ Gym in Englewood CO.
News: This Launcher Lets You Zoom Through Apps & Open Them with One Touch
Lens Launcher was one of the winners of 2106's Android Experiments I/O Challenge a few months ago, and with good reason—it gives us a new way to browse for apps on our Android phones. It's slightly reminiscent of how the Apple Watch does it, but even better.
How To: Use Nuts to Repair Small Nicks & Scratches in Your Wood Furniture
Furniture gets beat up—it's a fact of life. Your beautiful tables will end up scratched, the legs of your chairs will grow nicked, and you'll find interesting dents and damage in other places around the house, too. Yet if most of your furniture is made of wood, you don't have to live with unsightly scratches. In fact, you can remove years of damage with a simple snack food: nuts.
Food Tool Friday: A Flexible Fish Spatula Is the Only Spatula You'll Ever Need
Most people who cook end up having at least three or four different kinds of spatulas in their drawers. I personally have at least five. However, if I had to do it all over again, I would purchase only one, and that would be a flexible fish spatula.
How To: How Panic! at the Disco's "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" Was Steampunked
You may or may not have heard of alt-rock band Panic! at the Disco, but a year and a half ago they released a single called "The Ballad of Mona Lisa", which had an accompanying music video that was Steampunk-themed. In fact, here's the video:
How To: Draw Evee from Pokemon
This video explains how to draw Eevee from Pokémon. Start with two circle shapes, one for the head and one for the body. The shape for the body is a little misshapen as you see here. You will then draw the facial guidelines and then draw the lines for the large pointed ears. You will draw in the inner shape of Eevee's ears as you see them here, then draw out the circular eyes using the facial guidelines you drew in step one. Color in the eyes and make sure you leave white to add that glazed l...
How To: Top 5 New Shooter Games for iPhone & Android in 2019
When it comes to shooting games, battle royale titles like PUBG and Fortnite have come to dominate the scene, leaving other sub-genres like top-down and third-person shooters living in the shadows. They're far from irrelevant, though, as evidenced by all the great games released just in 2019 alone.
How To: Avoid razor burn
Do you always get razor burn? Razor burn can be painful, irritating and lower self-esteem. Follow these simple steps to get a smooth shave without the irritating bumps and burn.